Time flies

A long time since I last got on the blog and put down what I was thinking. So much seems to have happened since then, got over a fractured wrist, dealt with a bereavement, welcomed new people into the world and suffered a debilitating virus that I am still getting over now.

All of these things have contributed to distracting me from my training and have in one shape or another prevented me from achieving the things that i really wanted to do. Rationlising the whole experience makes you address the fact that there is only so much of yourself you can give to 'external' things and that sometimes you need to devote some of your time and energy to yourself and your family. I have been mentally beating myself up for a while about not training regulary and fretting about the dreaded 'black beltitis!' I think I have just needed to relax a bit and looking back on the last 6 months I wonder how I have sometimes managed to get up in the morning let alone juggle, family, work and achieving a black belt!

Things are starting to look up and all I have to keep an eye on is the level of support I can give nto my daughter who is looking to take her black belt in Spetember. She is very talented in sports such as swimming and these things take up a lot of her free time, so much so that i sometimes fear that she is doing too much. Luckily the majority of her black belt goals are things she enjoys, her comic is looking fantastic and i cant wait until its finished as i think it is going to be something really good. With a couple of week sto go until summer holidays I think i can help her out on researching her thesis this weekend and I know doing patterns by the pool will be a good laugh for both of us. As she is only 10 the fun aspects of training need to be brought to the fore as at that age stress and worry shoudnt come into it (hopefully she won't pick up on Dad's anxiety ;) )

Looking forward I just want to get back into a good training regime, pick up my fitness, start learning again and keep on daydreaming about seeing her face when (she hopefully) achieves her black belt and gets to come to the curry afterwards! Each time we go past it at graduations she mentions it now.